Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty years ago the most eminent of all U. S. composers, Edward Alexander MacDowell, died in Manhattan's Westminster Hotel. Known most widely for his piano piece, To a Wild Rose, courtly, affable MacDowell was internationally famed for an imposing list of orchestral suites, symphonic poems, piano concertos, songs...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt has a temperament so beautifully suited for political leadership that there is only one thing he enjoys more than projecting himself into a large audience of respectful men and listening to his own assuring counsel. This is projecting himself far into the future and viewing himself retrospectively...
The Vagabond is one of those energetic souls who has a healthy dislike for people who spend their lives telling others how to conduct themselves and yet never manage to accomplish anything worthwhile themselves. Of a temperament eager and alive to things new, and yet not blind to what has...
Tamazunchale is some 500 feet about sea level. To reach Mexico City on a vast plateau 8000 feet in the air, it is necessary to close one's eyes and drive madly around the side of precipitous mountain slopes. Of course characteristic of the Mexican temperament is the fact that...
Jean v. Paavo. Politically and by temperament Sibelius is a nationalist. A large number of his early works (Kullervo, the Karelia Suite, Finlandia, et al.) were written as patriotic tributes. Though no one has succeeded in identifying any of his melodies as folk themes, considerable controversy still goes on as...